Welcome to the Chiltern Arts Festival
28th February–7th March 2020
Septura
Brass Septet
Friday 28th February • 7.30pm St Mary's Church • Princes Risborough
Come and Sing
Tippett's Spirituals
Saturday 29th February • 11.30am–6pm St Mary-le-more Church • Wallingford
Oliver Soden
on Michael Tippett (talk)
Saturday 29th February • 5pm St Mary-le-more Church • Wallingford
The Marian Consort
Singing in Secret
Saturday 29th February • 8pm St Peter's Church • Wallingford
Youth Music
and Art Day
Sunday 1st March • 12pm onwards Queen's Hall RGS • High Wycombe
The Phoenix Piano Trio
Into the Silence
Monday 2nd March • 7.30pm All Saints' Church • Marlow
Ensemble Hesperi
Take Note Ensemble
Tuesday 3rd March • 1pm St Peter and St Paul's Church • Tring
The Piccadilly Revellers
Concert, Cabaret & Dinner
Tuesday 3rd March • 7pm The Gatsby • Berkhamsted
Dame Evelyn Glennie
in Conversation
Wednesday 4th March • 6.30pm St Mary's Church • Henley-on-Thames
Trio HLK
and Dame Evelyn Glennie
Wednesday 4th March • 7.30pm St Mary's Church • Henley-on-Thames
Matthew Wadsworth
Pre-Concert Talk
Thursday 5th March • 6.30pm St Peter and St Paul's Church • Great Missenden
Candlelit Lute
Matthew Wadsworth
Thursday 5th March • 7.30pm St Peter and St Paul's Church • Great Missenden
Magnard Wind Ensemble
Take Note Ensemble
Friday 6th March • 1pm St Peter and St Paul's Church • Medmenham
Danny Driver
(piano)
Friday 6th March • 7.30pm St Mary the Virgin Church • Hambleden
Salomé String Quartet
Take Note Ensemble
Saturday 7th March • 1pm St Michael and All Angels Church • Hughenden
City of London Sinfonia
Mozart and Beethoven
Saturday 7th March • 7.30pm St Mary's Church • Old Amersham
Beethoven’s words, ‘Let your deafness no longer be a secret, even in art’, which are emblazoned on the 2020 Festival brochure cover, embody the theme of this year’s Festival: Passion Prevails.
In the 250th year since Beethoven’s birth, we’re exploring a different way to celebrate the great composer’s life and — taking inspiration from his passion and drive to continue as his hearing deteriorated — to explore and celebrate others who have also overcome adversity and created great art. Each event in the 2020 programme has been curated with this theme in mind, celebrating just some of the ways in which the passion for music and art has continued to be a driving force even for those faced with life-changing events such as hearing or sight loss, or those faced with adversity from political, religious or societal circumstances.
We’re looking forward to welcoming both new friends and familiar faces – and we can’t wait to share another week of fabulous music with you... see you there!
Naomi Taylor
Chiltern Arts Founder and Creative Director
Chiltern Arts are hugely grateful for support from:
Arts Council England
The Foyle Foundation
Wycombe District Council
Support from these organisations helps to make the Chiltern Arts Festival possible.
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Chiltern Arts Membership
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Poetry Competition 2020
Calling all budding writers...
Poetry Competition 2020
The 2020 Poetry Competition invites you to explore a situation in your own life, or the life of someone who has inspired you, in which the phrase ‘overcoming adversity’ resonates.
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